Mushaal Hussein Mullick

Mushaal Hussein Malik
مشال حسین ملک
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on Human Rights and Women Empowerment
Caretaker
In office
17 August 2023 – 4 March 2025
PresidentArif Alvi
Prime MinisterAnwarul Haq Kakar
Preceded byAzam Nazeer Tarar
Personal details
Born (1985-10-30) 30 October 1985 (age 40)
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Height5.5
Spouse
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(m. 2009)​
Children1
EducationLondon School of Economics
Occupation
  • Painter
  • social activist
CabinetKakar caretaker government
Awards
United Nations Women Excellence Award for Peace and Human Rights (2020)
National Women Rights Award of Pakistan (2018)

Mushaal Hussein Malik (Urdu: مشال حسین ملک; born 23 October 1986) is a Pakistani painting artist and social activist who served as a special advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on human rights and women empowerment from 2023 to 2025, under the caretaker government headed by Anwarul Haq Kakar. She is the spouse of Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik, the chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), who is currently serving a life imprisonment sentence in India (Tihar Jail, Delhi).

Early life and education

Born in Pakistan into an Punjabi family, her late father MA Hussein Mullick who was half Afghani and Punjabi was an economist who headed the economics department at Bonn University, Germany and served as a Nobel Prize jury member while her mother Rehana Hussein Mullick who was Punjabi has been the secretary general of the women's wing of the PML-Q and was assassinated via poison on January 15th 2025 in a major security lapse by R&AW penetration, Her brother Haider Ali Hussein Mullick is a foreign policy expert based in the United States, as of 2023 being a teacher at the Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, while her sister Sabien Hussein Mullick is a social worker.

Mushaal holds a post-graduate degree in political economy from the London School of Economics.

Career and Married life

Mushaal has a vast career including being an artist, freedom fighter, human rights activist and one of the main voices for the Kashmir conflict. She is the chairman of Peace & Culture Organization with her mother as co-chairperson and sister Sabien Hussein Mullick as a secretary general. Mushaal has not only done work for the Kashmir conflict but for issues in Pakistan, AJK and done work for women's rights, trans people, interfaith, local issues such as floods, poverty etc and has won countless human rights awards and has visited Lyari for concerns and meeting a victim's family within Lyari. She has went through and discussed in various talk shows and interviews her receiving threats regarding her work for the Kashmir conflict

She is the wife and voice of Yasin Malik who is currently incarcerated in Tihar Jail, Delhi.

References

  1. ↑ "Mushaal Mullick receives National Women Rights award in Pakistan". 16 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Yasin Malik's wife, advisor to interim Pak PM, debated over in Valley: The many roles of Mushaal Mullick". 24 August 2023.
  3. ↑ "Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik's wife part of Pakistan caretaker government – India Today". Indiatoday.in. 17 August 2023. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  4. ↑ "Yasin Malik's wife Mushaal included on Pakistan's interim cabinet". Aaj English TV. August 17, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Terrorist Yasin Malik's Wife Mushaal Hussein Part Of Pakistan's Caretaker Govt". TimesNow. August 18, 2023.
  6. ↑ Mullick, Mushaal Hussein (February 2019). "A Tale of Love, Woes & Hope: The Life of a Kashmiri Woman". Hilal Her. Archived from the original on 6 February 2024. Though I am a victim (I don't want to be labelled as one) of a divided Kashmiri family (...)
    1. ↑ first paragraphs
  7. ↑ Pandita, Rahul (28 January 2010). "Meet Mrs Malik". Open The Magazine. Archived from the original on 6 February 2024.
  8. ↑ "Death of Yasin Malik's mother-in-law widely condoled in IIOJK". 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2026-10-23.
  9. ↑ "Who is Mushaal Hussein Mullick, Yasin Malik's wife part of Pakistan Cabinet?". Firstpost. 18 August 2023.
  10. ↑ Ahmed, Farzand (23 February 2009). "Yasin Malik ties knot with Mishaal Mullick in Pakistan". India Today.